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Cash shops? What do you think?

Hello all,
To all of the gamers out there let me introduce myself. I am a game design student doing a masters in game design theory, with the data I need to collect I wish to help bring better understanding in the way free to play games design systems around cash shop items in MMOs by trying to find a connection between player types and cash shop item preferences.

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Mmm there are alot of question about what I'm most likely to spend on, but a few about which choices of ingame cash shop I respect or even accept. I actually put them choices in the order of things I would spend on without feeling guilty, stupid or completely ripped off.

Normally I wouldn't play a game with a cash shop giving a statistical advantage. Paying for convenience and cosmetics seems fine to me as long as there are in game alternatives. (hopefully not 1 in game outfit to 50 cash shop outfits x-x)
Oh and ... cash shop giving currency is also very bad for ingame economy as it causes inflation problems, and if you try to compensate with sinks you then get unsustainability problems for non-paying users.

I would when I was younger, had no income and no way to get access to P2P games. ( I wouldn't spend on those either )
But right now I consider P2P to be more affordable (as I could easily spend 1000$ a month of games if I wanted to) and quite a lot more stable in what I can reasonably achieve within the game without having to cash out more. I generally also feel that my money is better managed by companies with P2P games in general. I think the price of P2P games should be a bit higher as they didn't follow inflation at all, but I do understand that this would be a commercial suicide, this ain't a popular opinion.

I've been quite busy recently, and I can't play as much, but that's no reason I should be able to pay and catch up to the others that actually invested their time in the game. The opposite should be as true as far as I'm concerned.

Hello all,
To all of the gamers out there let me introduce myself. I am a game design student doing a masters in game design theory, with the data I need to collect I wish to help bring better understanding in the way free to play games design systems around cash shop items in MMOs by trying to find a connection between player types and cash shop item preferences.

It would mean a lot for just 1 person to spare 5 minutes of your day to help a fellow gamer, just copy paste the link below and fill in this small survey and know you did some good today, Thank you. And if you are worried about the link from a 0 post guy, just Google kwiksurveys to see that its legit.

A) Life is about family, friends and love. <3. Life is about being best and doing what you want to do, freedom!
I can't decide, since I have a split-personality for each of those goals. Also, my friends keep ditching me, so the more I strive for (a) the more I end-up without (A).

If i had to give any advice where cash-shops are concerned, it'd be exclusively cosmetics - and allow some items in your cash-shop to be purchased for a select amount of the typical in game currency.( that's a horribly attractive hook to set out there)